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I don’t know what that is. Ctrl + F is the search function on Windows, has been forever. Is this…
I am shocked the smh has a column up mildly critical of Saint Lisa.
Thanks, Bush — a handy shortcut
For example, it’s the dumbest idea imaginable to have to scroll to the top of the page to post a…
Yeah, exactly.
Putin didn’t make 200 bn by investing after he read some blog posts by Warren Buffet (Mr Integrity).
What Peter Hitchens wrote of the elites who led Europe into WWI – from memory, “they were greedy and stupid and had no idea of the damage they could do” – applies equally to Western leaders in the post Cold War period. Trump excepted.
Sure Russia is corrupt but is the establishment there at war with the Russian people like in most western countries? My view is that the current abomination that has re asserted control in the US is punishing Americans – open borders, cross dressing admirals, expensive fuel and so on. A punishment and a warning.
Putin stole from the oligarchs who stole from the Russian people (and other former Soviet republics).
First rule of theft.
Always steal from people who can’t do anything about it.
They might be content to hold IOUs for now.
Breaking:
Russian gas being trucked directly to the Woomba extermination camp.
Nothing that occurs in the Ukraine justifies this Russian monster’s invasion.
That’s the spirit, bons, keep both eyes firmly in the rear view mirror.
What about the future? Two corrupt eastern European shitholes going at it with the chance of one having a few US funded labs taken out, their corrupt government with globalist Democrat and European ties being taken down and yet more ammo against the government media machine. This may be the only chance that there is a strike at the heart of the swamp, where their money is.
The fact that people still believe this is a good v bad game are pathetically naive, but hey, someone has to buy yellow and blue lights and today’s crisis Facebook picture filters. Social media influencers lives matter too.
Yes, look, I’ve got a few things to sort out, but I’ll get there as soon as I can.
Broomstick wounds are said to be particularly gruesome.
That’s some real deep thinking, Evil. Very high level deep thinking .You’re a queerslander, yeah?
It’s been fun to watch. A few months ago Gazprom had technical problems (as you do) and ceased pumping any gas at all to the EU. The pipeline through Ukraine was running backwards, drawing gas from storage for domestic needs.
I think that was Putin trying to ratchet leverage by depleting the EU storage levels. Winter though hasn’t been too frigid this year and the US frackers diverted lots of Asia-destined tankers to Europe to take advantage of high prices and short distances.
Now though we’re in a situation where Ukraine wants to keep the EU as sweet as they can, so they ain’t going to interrupt gas flows to the EU. And Russia wants to keep EU from being too unhappy, so they are supplying all the gas the Euroweenies need. It’s very popcornworthy.
You can always be like Khodorkovsky.
Steal your way to billionaire status.
When the Russian Big Guy “asks” for his cut, pretend you’re a saint & call for new management.
Then live in luxury in the West, sometimes even being referred to as a Russian refugee.
Nothing that occurs in the Ukraine justifies this Russian monster’s invasion.
selective outrage- I think the murder of white farmers in South Africa is wicked but it’s not a cause du jour.
From his twitter, maybe Khodorkovsky thinks he can play the role that Karzai or Chalabi played.
Mate in Denmark and his wife, double vaxxed, boosted. Just had a week in Austria Skiing and both have come down with the coof. The mild variant. No probs.
Things to actually be concerned about.
There is nothing fun about what’s going on in Ukraine.
Poor people being used as pawns.
If you think it’s fun, you are a ghoul.
Emailed my local federal member this morning:
Dear Garth,
I heard on the news yesterday that our PM was going to send our tax money to buy weapons for Ukraine.
Why? Does this man not have to sense to know when to shut up? A few platitudes saying the situation was terrible and the fighting should stop was all that was required. IT ISN’T OUR FIGHT. We were not asked if we wanted to have our money spent in this way.
It looks like his ineptitude will condemn us to the horrors of a green oriented Labor government. That sort of thing has worked out well in the United States hasn’t it? In just over a year the place is a wreck with numerous problems, all of which work their way through to destabilise the world.
Is there any reason I should vote for the LNP in the upcoming election?
Regards
That’s some real deep thinking, Evil. Very high level deep thinking .You’re a queerslander, yeah?
Probably deeper than any of the bullying crap that you put out you broken record.
Now, speaking of atrocities against humanity, have you given that poor cleaner Conchita Jorge Monghorez a weekend off? It’s pretty obvious she’s on a hiding to nothing with the Friday night hand shandys she’s diligently been giving you for years, you’re just never happy.
Fun facts re Russia:
800 000 civilians died during the siege of Leningrad.
The US & UK together lost fewer soldiers than that over the course of the entire war.
That has to leave a mark on your psyche.
Leningrad/St. Petersburg is Putin’s (b. 1952) home town.
The insanity of this ………………………………it was insane to think you’d catch something and suffer from it once vaccinated against it, back in 2019, and it’s insane to think that way in 2022. I know you don’t think like that Eyrie, I’m talking about the jabbed not wanting to tear the heads off those selling these killer jabs.
Omicron….the virus only the jabbed suffer.
Before the jabbed die, do you think you might want to get justice done against those that scared you into taking the death jab?
As to popcornworthyness, I hate war and all its horrors. As a keen reader of history I know the horrors. Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent said Azimov, and there’s a bit of truth to that. What is also true is there are lots of incompetent leaders with egos the size of a planet, and they really really hate losing face.
I’ll leave it with this other quote:
I don’t regard Putin as incompetent, but it’s starting to look like he has had his Pickett’s Charge moment.
20 000 000 lost in WWII by the USSR iirc
Condi Rice on Foxnews this morning was bizarre too.
Or maybe it’s a good reminder for the US people.
Jimmy Dore was lucky enough to have Mitt & Obama on the phone today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPn-gRqVB-A
In response to the poms putting sanctions on Russia Ramzan Kadyrov the leader of Chechnya has, amongst other things, declared there’s not such thing as English tea.
I’m sure that’s going to hurt.
Hilarious fake of the day:
https://twitter.com/CaldronPool/status/1498078354800807938
Struth, they are both very smart, good people but unfortunately, like many, still believe in the innate goodness of government and that the official narrative isn’t a lie. He needs to travel extensively in Europe for work so that may also have driven the decision. I think he’s the second smartest person I’ve met. The smartest is the 16 year old grandson of friends of ours who fortunately has resisted the vaxx so far.
Sancho?
Are you an enemy within?
Sweet!
Calli: Do make sure the beloved takes the seafood tray out of the car. A certain forgetful Cat, too embarrassed to write in the first person, left a meat tray triumph from Altona RSL in the back of Vehicle #2 while driving Vehicle #1 for the next 10 days or so.
Oh, dear! Devil of a job to get the pong out.
New paper dealing with the core AGW issue of what caused the undisputed increase in CO2 concentration over the last 200 years. From the Abstract:
Our results show that the percentage of the total CO2 due to the use of fossil fuels from 1750 to 2018 increased from 0% in 1750 to 12% in 2018, much too low to be the cause of global warming.
In the meantime that POS john kerry is complaining about the war’s effect on the fucking climate and some woke bitch complains that Putin is an example of white supremacy. The woke are insatiable as a new article in the Spectator, which I rightfully castigated yesterday for an anti-Trump article, notes:
Will ‘woke’ survive the war?
They were your own words. ‘Shock value’, right?
The Internet is forever.
With all that’s happening OS & locally, it’s a bit passé, I suppose, to revert to the scourge of the vaccinations. But a family occurrence reminded me that we are far from “out of the woods”.
Yesterday, son-in-law had building job going on at home & was whacked on head by falling timber. The only person available to take him, half conscious, to hospital was teenage son. The latter, vaccinated of course, later on began to have chest pains – from the stress as father went in & out of consciousness, bleeding heavily. Now grandson, a very fit athlete, is no striking violet …….so I immediately thought of the myocarditis now striking very fit young men…….
He is fine this morning, but it made me concerned – though I don’t think anyone in the household connected the dots.
So Putin had a journalist killed? Hasn’t antifa tried to kill Andy Ngo? Don’t tell me antifa isn’t the sharp end of the US establishment.
Mine has had them since I moved into the area, but even though they always keep some homines sapientes at the registers a lot of people opt for the self-check out.
I prefer the check out myself.
I went to a Coles yesterday to buy something (still feel a bit dirty and degraded). After pressing the button to say I was finished (one punnet of butter) I was subject to a bewildering of images about bags, charities, points, QR Codes…
Did you see Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange, in the seen when they are ‘curing’ him? Something like that.
His 12,000 Chechen maniacs are going to hurt though. They appear to be in Donbass at the moment.
Mufti of the Chechen Republic Says Ukraine Invaders Are ‘On the Path of Allah’ (27 Feb)
It’s getting pretty surreal when you have a mufti saying invading Ukraine for Putin is Allah’s will.
I’ve read estimates of 27 million dead, with 14 million soldiers wounded.
It does help, O mighty Road Warrior-Troubador, if you don’t do a Faulty (or would it be better called a Biden these days?) and conflate two or more separate people you don’t like when trying to denounce everyone for their heresy.
It makes you look like your performance art for upticks is badly scripted and unrehearsed.
Maybe stick to anklebiting for a bit. Or tell us all how brave you are being in South Australia after Socialism sat you on your arse so many times you felt you’d never be able to do anything again. Except maybe get put in a (repurposed and rebadged FIFO transient workers’) camp with all the
international arrivalsundesirables.And can you please explain to the Cat why we are all still waiting for these legions of WEF folks you so hate and fear to rise up and impose total control over us and take our precious bodily fluids.
Why is it taking so long? Are they Pooftah-Pansies who are not brave and decisive like you? They and their predecessors (Hi, Club of Rome! :D) have only been in charge for over 50-60 years, after all. Plenty of time to do everything you and your Nuffy brigades tell us they will impose, and yet…
BTW Anyone here in the Lismore town (south) area?
This morning heard the desperate situation of young family with small kids forced by rising water onto garage roof & then house roof. They could hear cries from elderly neighbours with the roof cavity of their house. No help in sight.
Seriously, I’m now waiting for the photo of the US flag being raised at Iwo Jima to be depicted as having occurred two days ago outside a Ukrainian airport, and by a crew of steppe nannas holding Molotov cocktails.
That’s how stupid this is becoming.
If Struth isn’t projecting, he’s not logged on…
Media groomer: Remember to smile when you hit the high vaccination rates.
Jacinda: Okey dokey.
Media groomer: On second thoughts, don’t.
Try squid left in the bait bucket in the boot.
miltonfsays:
February 28, 2022 at 10:59 am
20 000 000 lost in WWII by the USSR iirc
How many of them died as a result of using tactics that Haig would have considered primitive on the Somme in 1916?
😀 I love how computer games are getting so realistic that people are using stills and video from them for real world propaganda. And are getting away with it in many cases. Minitru would’ve killed for a decent graphic card.
The Ghost of Kiev got this one.
How many of them died as a result of using tactics that Haig would have considered primitive on the Somme in 1916?
very many no doubt- remember Stalin’s comment re statistics
Interestingly the Russians developed the tactics that won the war for the Allies, with Monash as a proponent.
Brusilov offensive (wiki)
Went very close to winning WW1 in 1916. Only some seriously good German logistical work and a large diversion of German divisions kept Austria from collapsing.
Geez, The Age and the ABC get things wrong sometimes.
All those neo Nazis camping in the Grampians ? Wrongly badged.
Ukrainian patriots.
Gold! Give that guy a medal. Welcome to Earth.
And it really deserves a Saturn Award. Absolutely perfect.
Just to confirm that Stan Grant has been talking a lot of sense lately – he’s been un-invited from the Pirate’s annual bash.
Outstanding, lotocoti.
Evil
You’re a national treasure, you retard.
That’s nice dot. The 200 billion number is completely made up, but let’s settle at billions nevertheless.
Now do love of your life Euromaidan coup funding (hiding in exile) ex-PM Petro Poroshenko, or your fantasy girl ex-PM Yulia Tymoshenko and her net worth in 2010. Do all of the pro-EU Ukraine oligarch cronies and ex-presidents and ex-PM’s in Ukraine that were involved in the Euromaidan coup de tat that you love so much and think should be allowed to run Ukraine by force and topple their opposition elected governments using billions of dollars of stolen money and their private neo-nazi militia’s there whenever they feel like it.
Tell us how they made their hundreds of millions and billions.
Oh yes that’s right, it’s always energy companies, and skimming off the top while in government during the “deals” they made with Russia. The same companies that gave half of the US democrat’s children million dollar a year no-show boardroom jobs after the coup that you fully supported.
But the thing is, I know you know all of this. Because in 2014 we argued it all to death and you said ultimately that none of it matters, your support for Ukraine isn’t for Ukraine, it’s against Russia. And it started the moment that the cultural left declared war on Putin when Russia announced it was walking back from “western values” aka homo supremacy, and started openly playing culture wars.
You play the blind eye poorly dot.
The audio on that one is a radio traffic report in German saying “caution, an accident on the A3 Oberhausen in the direction of Arnhem, the left lane is closed.”
Poroshenko doesn’t seem to be hiding in exile right now. Maybe all is forgiven.
Kalashnikov in hand, ex-president Petro Poroshenko says Putin can never catch Ukraine (25 Feb)
Mounds of the corpses of dead peasant militiamen were of no interest to Uncle Joe – a well trained, professional Army would pose a threat to him.
I just like the fact that everyone the Russians don’t like now are the Nazis.
Why Nazis? Is ‘fascist’ too dated, and recall the spectre of the era of gloriously naff Soviet and Chicom propaganda too strongly for it to be taken seriously? Or does the word just make Nuffies (no matter their real political affiliation) moist in the gussets when they hear it?
Dillo!
They’re recognisable all right. As the Communists they always were.
You’re a national treasure, you retard.
Keep it coming you autistic, alcoholic, fucking dwarf of wall street.
If you’re shitting on me you’re not shitting on some poor innocent bystander like BoN, etc, etc.
You really are a broken record, same MO every day.
Ain’t that the truth. All the silly concern about Climate Change and Covid but virtually nothing about the new and improved “Australia Card”. The left will end up with total control of Australians’ lives and nearly nobody is talking about it.
My wife asked me to get her a WA covid app on her phone, first requirement? A digital certificate. She is going without the app.
Counter revolutionary deviationist Trotskyite hyenas
doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
Point taken.
But I’m sure the phrase does work and sound better in the original russian.
‘Nazi,’ by comparison is just plain lazy. 🙁
FFS, even Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit appears to have lost his mind. Americans! Blundering around world affairs like a bull in a china shop.
Unpredictable rain bomb news.
Gaia is unhappy with you, Annastacia, for being insufficiently observant.
Lol, you delusional dickhead.
Oh yeah, the Nobel laureate chick magnet. “I’m a scientist”.
Honest question, has there ever been a time you’ve actually made a pertinent comment, you loser.
Feelthe Bern
The Long Game works, FTB.
Look how well it’s worked in the West.
All I can do is show you where I got my information.
Wonderful. The Danes and Brits are encouraging anyone who wants to, to go and fight for the Ukrainians. Is Scomo next cab off the rank?
No doubt we have laws against that but hey, he’ll just bend the rules for this.
And it turns out that WordPress does not like Cyrilic.
Locototi, you win that round. Counter revolutionary deviationist Trotskyite hyenas indeed doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue.
The Cyrilic translated phrase was even longer, and WordPress started making very expensive-sounding noises when I tried to post it. 🙁
Apparently the Labor Party have decided to be on the side of the Ukrainians.
Which is entertaining seeing Vlad is trying to re-establish the Soviet Union.
Shadow Treasurer Jim Chalmers calls for a ‘step up’ in weapons supply to Ukraine amid Russian nuclear threat (Sky News, 28 Feb)
Oh yeah, the Nobel laureate chick magnet. “I’m a scientist”.
Come on you pos, JC. Focus on the task at hand (god knows Conchita of calloused fingers fame has told you often enough) and don’t try and drag what you feel is an easy target into this. Typical bully dog act.
C’mon. Dog’s are useful. JC isnt.
Saw another appeal like this on my other forum. Info from others and followups said:
another said
Sounds like the volunteers are busily getting people to safety.
In 2014 the US and EU/ Germany backed Euromaidan coup, installed Euromaidan’s long time major funder and darling of the “west” “pro EU” Ukrainian billionaire oligarch Petro Poroshenko into power as President where he “governed” until 2019. The legitimate elected president of Ukraine that his violent coup overthrew fled to exile in Russia.
What nobody seems to know about, or people like dot who do won’t speak about because it’s because this is apparently fact-free Covid redux, is that the current Ukraine “president” – the one in all the fake photo’s floating around – when he secured power in 2019, immediately accused Poroshenko – Euromaidan Revolutionary Hero and Dot’s BFF, of treason. And declared him…wait for it….to be a Secret Russian Stooge and initiated criminal proceedings against him.
This is a pretty bad look don’t you think?
So Poroshenko – who in 2014 was the Chosen One of the US and EU and oligarchs in Ukraine during Euromaidan (and man you should have heard dot go on about him at the time like the second coming of christ), the chosen puppet to rule Ukraine after he helped overthrow the last actual legitimate government there accusing it of being too “pro russian”, was forced to flee to…..Russia!. And has been living there (presumably in the same street as the ex-president he forced to flee to Russia), in exile.
You couldn’t make it up right?
That is, until….January when he gloriously returned to Ukraine face the charges.
Good timing right.
Wow. The EU has banned RT from being broadcast in all member nations.
Moth attacks will millions.
Rash-causing moth spreading due to warming, scientists find (27 Feb)
Anyone have global warming induced poisonous moths on their 2022 bingo card?
What are the symptoms of “long COVID”? I’ve only heard about people with uncontrollable shakes which sounds more like vaxx damage rather than COVID.
Have any unvaxxed people suffered from “long COVID”?
Uncritically supporting the fascism of the fascists on the opposing side because you don’t like the fascism of the fascists on your side (whichever fascist side you found yourself on at the start of all this), makes Nuffies of us all…
Really? Like how you pro Putin pukes jack off about shirtless bear Vlad?
All I really said was Yanukovych was a corrupt Russian stooge who rigged elections (true) and that Putin declaring another sovereign state as illegitimate was a joke as he was basing that in Tymoshenko having a poor economic record (false, both objectively and subjectively compared to Russia).
Get off 4chan, breathe some fresh air.
I agree Rex.
The former Soviet bloc is a shit fight. Maybe Zelensky is okay… apparently he has no say, Hillary Clinton is secretly ruling Russia from a basement in Prague with the Queen, Pope and lizard people.
New Zealand High Court rules against vaxx mandates and no jab-no job policy for New Zealand Police and Defence Force personnel.
‘Not demonstrably justified’: High Court upholds challenge to Police and NZDF vaccination mandates, terminations suspended
Knuckle Dragger:
If I had several Level4 biolabs in my enemies territories, I sure as shit wouldn’t be lobbing HE into them.
So my suspicion is that they weren’t what they appear.
Apparently we’re in a plastics crisis, which is interesting since I hadn’t noticed this before now.
UN to agree on plan for ‘historic’ plastics treaty (26 Feb)
I think we’re in a UN crisis, with a global scourge of vampires sucking on our necks. I propose we hand out stakes, mallets and garlic to rid ourselves of the UNdead menace. For the planet!
Is it?
Let me guess. You verified every dollar when you read an article about Gina? Fuck off.
You’re supporting an ex KGB tyrant who rigs elections,locks up his opponents, murders journalists and is as corrupt and the source of some of the misery in Ukraine.
“But he really cares about Russians!”
Millions of Australians think the same of Dan Andrews.
I’ve been thinking about this but it appears to me, and the continuous news I’m hearing from Europe confirms my suspicions, that this is more true of Europe than of Russia.
“Never in the field of human history, has Relevance Deprivation Syndrome harmed so many, from so few.”
– Rex Churchill-Anger, 2022
Salmon have feelings too.
Major hurdle cleared in plan to demolish 4 California dams (26 Feb)
California really does overachieve in crazy.
Anyone have global warming induced poisonous moths on their 2022 bingo card?
No, but I went heavy with the rashes and respiratory trouble referenced, as well as phantom onset heart attacks and “long AIDS”, so all I need now is the longed-for link between eating meat and the gender pay gap, and I’m all out.
rigs elections,locks up his opponents, murders journalists and is as corrupt and the source of some of the misery in Ukraine.
could say the same about Biden- like I say antifa kills people
I have a Japanese Movie Monsters expansion deck hiding in the back somewhere.
But I think the Gamera v Mothra fight we all want to see is unlikely in the present shuffle. The best we’ll probably get is Dragon v Ape. Narrated by an arsehole… 🙂
5+ years ago now my wife and I holidayed in the Whitsundays.
On the seaward side of the island there was plastic refuse everywhere along the shore. I would never have expected to see such a sight in Australia.
Upon inspection of some of the larger pieces I concluded they didn’t originate here.
If the UN can get the nations responsible to act I’d say they’ve achieved some rare good in this world.
Breaking911
@Breaking911
NEW: Congress drops mask mandate ahead of Biden’s State of The Union speech on Tuesday
“Mask wear is now an individual choice option,” the Capitol Attending Physician said.
12:42 PM · Feb 28, 2022
Just like that.
*cough*INSCRUTABLE DRY CLEANERS*cough*
If I had several Level4 biolabs in my enemies territories, I sure as shit wouldn’t be lobbing HE into them.
I’d use monster thermobaric weapons and when the rubble and fire settled, do it twice more to be sure.
Dillo:
My impression is that we are being propagandised into supporting the Ukrainian people, but by extension the Ukrainian government.
The I Hate Putin mob are demonising Putin – who is certainly not a nice man – but also the Russian people.
The mood here is the Cat is supporting a wait and see attitude.
The confusion in the media is deliberate.
The Scientific American, 2018:
And:
Paging Messrs Rudd, Dastyari and Keating. Turtle-strangling monsters.
Always verify.
ANy updates on the Canadian bank situation?
It Always Starts With a Cultural Shift – The Totalitarian Left Begin Backing Toward the COVID Exits
February 27, 2022 | Sundance
In case you missed it, March 1st has been declared as the unofficial end date for COVID-19 as a political weapon.
Now the faith healers want to give the elderly in care a fourth shot.
I can tell you my mum seems to be declining at an increased pace since the third jab. Her mobility has decreased markedly and now wants to stay in bed.
Who’s doing any monitoring of the elderly to check for adverse effects?
Nobody, we all knew that.
Not likely Roger.
If you can tell China and India to clean up their acts you will be doing well.
Around 90% of all river-borne plastic that ends up in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers (2018)
But only after you’ve thermited everything in a glass phial you see, smashed every hard drive and added them and every paper document onsite to the thermiting pile.
If the claims of WEF murdergenocide and bodily-fluid enslaving Level 4 biolabs are real…
Possibly still running, but quieter?
I guess this is why the chunks are going to rule the world:
https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/46513808642891517/
Hehe, KD beat me to it! Snap to you sir.
‘plastic has been found in Arctic Sea ice’….and even in womens’ breasts.
And the best dicks are plastic. It’s a plastic world.
Knitted are better.
The Canadian Mint(s)(?) must have lines out the door by now…
Biden Claims Success But People “Psychologically” Can’t “Feel Happy”
https://twitter.com/RNCResearch/status/1497629895547105280
We have to start somewhere & the UN is a worldwide forum.
One of KRudd’s better ideas when he was campaigning for S-G was to downsize the UN bureaucracy and spend the savings on field programs.
Probably one reason why word was given to Trumble to quash his candidacy.
One of KRudd’s better ideas when he was campaigning for S-G was to downsize the UN bureaucracy and spend the savings on field programs.
like when he said he would take a meat axe to the pubic service in Canbra. Zero credibility.
And everyone who was there then knows this, but it doesn’t stop Dot & the rest doing their job.
Only doing their job …
Otoh, he did so in QLD under Goss.
“Dr Death” was his nickname.
touche Roger
So If Putin was Trump (pretend Trump is el presidento of Russia) how would this have played out? NATO on the verge of putting missile bases in Ukraine on the border of Russia.
Another scenario, China putting missile bases on the Mex border with USA, and Trump is President, how would that play out? (Ignore that they dont need to as they have weapons that can circle the world three times and still zap anywhere in USA\)
Would’ve been fun watching him try, anyway.
Snork!
I just metaphorically coffee’d my keyboard and monitor.
The suggestion the other day was that if he had got the job, the result would have been the obliteration of the institution. If wishes were horses. KRudd would have set out to reduce the instatution with a special grant request for 10,000 staff to run the downsizing, and which would have become a nation-state in their own right. UN staff have diplomatic status and don’t need green cards.
My guess is that there will be a flood of bans, and any continued legitimate usage will be involve expensive regulation and and ordinary people having additional taxes levied to ‘discourage’ them using plastic (but which they will nevertheless need) – which in fact just becomes another government revenue stream.
New Zealand High Court rules against vaxx mandates and no jab-no job policy for New Zealand Police and Defence Force personnel.
Kiwi institutions still appear to be functioning. They’ll get that fixed smartly.
I sometimes get a little shocked when my diagnosis of severe Destroyed Reality Identification Psychosis, or “Denialism” as we sane still call it, is so thoroughly proven correct, as the victims scream out for help, without a moments pause for thought, in such a public manner, being more noticable than a pressed ham on a Victorian bus window.
I am speaking to the sane only. I won’t insult your intelligence after the last two years in pointing out the bleeding obvious, as you would have Identified the Reality already.
Pity the D.R.I.P sufferers.
And thank the lord that after all this you are not a raving fucking loon.
Hmmm….
SRR goes full Faulty and gives us a binary: Are you a Propagandist (Them) or a Nuffy (Us)?
Propagandist or a Nuffy?
Propagandist…
Nuffy…
Nup. Better a Propagandist SRR dislikes than a Nuffy she does.
Even if only for the reason I only like certain types of tunnels, and even then I prefer to travel through them rather than live in them (I don’t like them fumes hanging around)… 😉
List of green idiocies revealed by Putin:
https://mailchi.mp/9e148cba795d/putins-war-on-ukraine-changes-everything-187350?e=170323d89f
NZ has a Bill of Rights which recognises the right to refuse experimental medical or scientific treatment.
Not sure yet as to how that factored into their HC’s decision but it would have been in the background at least, informing the judges’ views on whether the mandate was reasonable.
I am not indeed. 🙂
Having fun with your audience today, Struth? 🙂
And just remember, better Nuffies than you have been predicting the Illuminated Lizard People doing exactly the same things you proclaim since late last century.
And even they are still waiting…
Quel horreur!
I finally got a response to my month-old(?) query to NSW arts minister asking why the Museum and Art Gallery of NSW were requiring vaccine for entry, long after the government had lifted any such restrictions.
It seems to the Arts minister pinged it down to “Create NSW” (who knew another level of waste and government inefficiency existed?) .. who then had a functionary drone draft something (Author of the PDF), which was signed off by their (lawyer) ED.
Of course the words contain nothing of any worth – just a side-stepping of the issue at hand.
btw – both institutions have now dropped their vaccine requirement for entry.. so this is too little, too late.
Another reason why the chunks want Australia:
edge://favorites/?id=2
I see the Aussie Cossack coming out in full support for Putin. Not watched any of his clips for a while but suspect might detract from his popularity.
Wivenhoe Dam at 182.9% capacity & Somerset 147.1% capacity after jointly releasing 150 000 megalitres.
Prof. Flim Flammery wisely keeping a low profile, although Pirate Pete still backs him unconditionally.
That’s right srr. I’m an EU asset, hence why my name links to either the LDP or “government-scam dot com”.
Yes, a total stooge for the EU. They love small government, as we see in Austria.
CNN Ukraine War Correspondent Admits Producers Scour Social Media for Content to Broadcast
February 27, 2022 | Sundance | 56 Comments
CNN ‘War Correspondent’ Clarissa Ward accidentally explained why the public is confused about what the corporate media are saying about the Ukraine war with Russia, compared to what is actually visible about the Ukraine war with Russia.
During a segment with Brian Stelter, Ms Ward explained how CNN war corresponding in Ukraine consists of talking about material provided to her by CNN production crews who sit and scour through YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and social media posts to find the input material for their stories.
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Clarissa Ward didn’t mean to expose how the propaganda of modern warfare is created, but she did.
Ward was thanking the people in the background of CNN who search social media for their Ukraine content; however, in talking about what they do, she affirmed what we already knew was taking place.
People wondering why there is no visible ‘fight’ in this war, now find the baseline which Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh was talking about last week. The State Department, intelligence community and political participants in the U.S. government are constructing the “war” against Vladimir Putin through the prism social likeability as a cultural weapon.
When the goal is to produce content that tells the “better story,” social media becomes the battlefield. War corresponding is reduced to using the corporate media platform to enhance the social media battlefield. Essentially you might call this “World War Reddit.”
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/27/cnn-ukraine-war-correspondent-admits-producers-scour-social-media-for-content-to-broadcast/
FYI.
Something to keep your eye on.
Defcon levels in the US and elsewhere.
Todays DEFCON is 2.
Meanings and areas of alert status.
Maybe a Bex and a lie down, Rex, or maybe a nice long phone call to your mummy.
So many that want me to be wrong are wishing you’d just shut up about now.
For them, it’s like watching their own team member on the pitch, running the wrong way with the ball.
Just trying to help.
“Long COVID” seems to me not unlike “Post-viral syndrome” that has been affecting people for years after illnesses such as flu or Epstein-Barr virus. It is characterised by severe fatigue and often muscle & joint pain (myalgia). “Long COVID” certainly seems to be characterised by fatigue, and also “brain fog” which I guess is mental lethargy. The latter was mentioned by Dr. Robert Malone as one of his symptoms.
NEW ZEALAND COVID-19 -26 Feb 2022
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No rational person disagrees. If the US had a multiparty system, he would not be tolerated.
This is from Jo Nova’s blog. Certainly is a new style of warfare/resistance.
Should have heeded the words of his Archbishop to his local flock to avoid discord and pray for peace.
You’re no one’s asset, just a cheap bit player.
It explains your bitter envy spawned hatred of the likes of Carl Benjamin who make a success of their lives by not selling out.
Riddle me this.
Why doesn’t the dam overflow when water levels reach 100%?
Surely 100% = full.
uh huh..
All right, which of you lot was it?
100% is often the operational water storage capacity, which is not the max level.
Wivenhoe has (for example) almost 3x the capacity for flood mitigation, and is at something like 200% storage at the moment.
FMD – $4k/annum for ‘transitional’ membership.
And what are their names, Struth?
Remember that many upticks are made in the emotional ‘heat of the moment,’ and really mean nothing.
Posses are made of people, not likes.
Otherwise, you’re still performing.
There is extra holding capacity for flood mitigation purposes available to them, Old School.
So they’re 82.19% above the normal operating level atm, which would be the 100% figure, or c. 1 million megalitres. Thankfully, the rainfall in the catchment area has eased.
Who has the most corrupt elections?
1. USA
2. Russia
Um err umm …
And let’s face it- Kicking me, the dratted, debbil-debbil Unbeliever for upticks makes excellent Cope.
And an animating feature of your day you’d otherwise have to do a Grigory and make up.
I’m cheaper than coffee, Struth. And I don’t Bing-Bong! quite like a truck… 🙂
#LoveYouse
When was the last time Russia held an election? 😉
Bruce of Newcastlesays:
February 28, 2022 at 1:17 pm
Salmon have feelings too.
Major hurdle cleared in plan to demolish 4 California dams (26 Feb)
Federal regulators on Friday issued a draft environmental impact statement saying there were significant benefits to a plan to demolish four massive dams on Northern California’s Klamath River to save imperiled migratory salmon, setting the stage for the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history.
How long have the dams been in place? What is the life cycle of the migratory salmon? If the former is multiples of the latter, how can it be argued that they are merely endangered? Surely they would by now be extinct if the Klamath is so important to their life cycle?
And a very minor question, how will those (presumably in California) who rely on the dams for their water supply, avoid extinction?
Riddle me this.
Why doesn’t the dam overflow when water levels reach 100%?
Surely 100% = full.
They have reserve capacities where excess water from the main reservoir can to relocated to.
THERE SEEMS TO BE AMAZING WORLDWIDE UNITY ON THIS: Australia to send lethal weapons to Ukraine. “Australia will provide lethal military equipment to Ukraine to help the Ukrainians resist the Russian invasion. The Australian government’s announcement Monday gave no details on what material it may be sending. The move follows an offer on Friday of non-lethal military equipment, medical supplies and a $3 million contribution to a NATO trust fund for support of the besieged country.”
I think an Archduke has just been assassinated
Roger
If the UN can get the nations responsible to act I’d say they’ve achieved some rare good in this world.
The aim s not to get the nations responsible to act, it is to destroy the economies of western nations.
Thanks Duncan. That’s logical.
I had a look at Seqwater’s web site and they explain the difference between drinking water storage capacity and extra water that is stored in the flood storage compartment.
Still, a bland “180% of capacity” conjures up images of overflowing dam walls to me.
There is something soul-destroying about using a bamboo straw that is dissolving into your milkshake or slurpee faster than you can consume it.
And that’s before the brain-freeze headaches hit…
#GlobalistArseholes
This is what offended me.
He said people who don’t have children are parasites.
He’s a fucking idiot and I don’t care for anything he has said before or after that.
Mother Theresa & Pope John II were parasites? Gregor Mendel, Copernicus and Georges Lamaitre? Yep, fatso said they’re all parasites.
That fat pretentious “thinker” can fuck off.
All of those people born with a genetic defect or through illness or misadventure? Carl the blogger from east Bristol think they contribute nothing. Not even a heart surgeon DINK couple.
I’ll give you a hint as to who is actually the useless grifter.
Bruce of N
If you can tell China and India to clean up their acts you will be doing well.
Around 90% of all river-borne plastic that ends up in the ocean comes from just 10 rivers (2018)
Telling them might be easy (but the UN will not). Getting them to act would be impossible.
The golfer and his host were immediately asked to leave the clubhouse and both their clubs began an investigation.
Which clubs? Was it the putter, and the sand wedge? They’d probably have the best angles.
Hackers are working to punish Putin, theatening an unprecedented cyberwar that will cripple his websites and expose all his secrets.
Fun game that assumes the Russian hackers are incompetent and less fun when you get a visit one night from a hard man with a silenced pistol.
Wasn’t it Ulysses S. Grant who described golf as a superior form of exercise, marred only by the need to hit the ball?
Red Ghost was a Russian movie released domestically last year.
Being released on multiple platforms this year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioKMv8gfoi8
I’d have gone with a #2 Wood or something like that- Drive the investigation through…
UN staff have diplomatic status and don’t need green cards.
Nor do they pay taxes. Those are for the peasants.
A game invented by the devil, with tools ill adapted for the purpose at hand.
From memory: Churchill ?
Burning server farms are indeed a bit useless for mounting bot-net atracks.
The cyber- and meat-spaces are more closely interlinked than even Cyberpunk predicted.
The present aesthetics are nowhere as cool, but…
FFS, don’t get involved and don’t hack a nuclear power with crumbling infrastructure.
It would be nice if the Ukrainian thing de-escalated.
SNL making jokes about COVID?
Via Alex Berenson.
https://twitter.com/justin_hart/status/1498034859125530625?s=20&t=yEsR7sMYrRQfV14F6G6nUw
I think this is what the hard left call an apology.
Yeah, nahh.
https://twitter.com/SammySa79499401/status/1497896178700414977
Bluey:
Video of Russian Major being tortured.
By giving him a smoke?
Huh?
When was the last time Russia held an election?
last year in the Duma
Sounds definitely Churchillian, but it’s the first I’d ever heard of that quotation.
The one I was hearing about he was being beaten and the end supposedly a mock execution. BUT, I couldn’t find the video, and like a lot of what’s been coming out, I don’t know if it was taken somewhere else like Syria.
One of the reasons I keep trying to write any of this stuff as take it with a grain of salt, just so much being claimed and it’s hard to find anything concrete.
I always thought that part of the reason the deadshits in DC wanted Trump gone was that they wanted more wars. Seems like their wish is coming true.
Yes.
And remember the ‘Trump will start WW3’ projection?
Even during the 2020 campaign they were still on about it.
Hellooooo.
He’d had four years by then.
You don’t think it would have happened by then if he had an itchy trigger finger?
I thought it was a ‘cliff’.
Just how high was this thing? Could you stub your toe on it?
Like the proverbial cod or catfish that keeps growing with every retelling of the story.
The latest episode of meja spruiking US democratic party-rino propaganda just makes you wish they would hurry up and die.
Maybe it’s a country town thing, but mine are as well. I vividly remember one woman (who still works there) patiently helping a very elderly and frail customer at the checkout for about five minutes, while he wrestled with the tasks of putting his purchases on the conveyor belt, getting them packed and into his trolley, and then navigating payment. It took a long time compared to the average customer, people were waiting, but she looked after this old fella like he was her grandpa.
I was next in line, and I said something about how glad I was she’d taken all that trouble – any of us could be him one day. To which the boofy tradie behind me said loudly – we all will be him one day.
The kindness of strangers is not dead in this country, contrary to the doomsayers.
Col Douglas Macgregor Has a Slightly Different Take on Russia-Ukraine Conflict
February 27, 2022 | Sundance
Gotta hand it to the A League when it comes to match cancellations .. tonight’s game Melbourne City v Brisbane Roar that was to be played at AAMI stadium in Melbourne has been cancelled due to…
the rain in Brisbane .. LOL!
Col Douglas Macgregor Has a Slightly Different Take on Russia-Ukraine Conflict
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/02/27/col-douglas-macgregor-has-a-slightly-different-take-on-russia-ukraine-conflict/#more-228729
MiltonF:
70 Million dead in the war between the Communists and the Soviet Republics Citizens.
Firstly, what defines an ‘elder’ in this charade? From some of the ‘elders’ I have seen, it is a pretty fluid concept.
Secondly, they admit themselves that these are ‘stories’, but somehow in the space of a sentence ‘stories’ become ‘truths’ which then become ‘evidence.’
Ye gods and little fishes.
What a way to make policy and spend other people’s money.
It’s an absolute travesty which throws under the bus any concept of honest and responsible government in favour of feels and fashion. It reverses the presumption of innocence. What’s more, it reinforces those concepts as viable ways to run a country.
Grrr. 🙁
Disgraceful.
@ P-
It’s a very interesting nuance to apply, but you cannot take and hold territory without eventually having to engage the enemy. Particularly as in any human-managed landscape, all transportation and infrastructure links inevitably end up in cities and towns.
Bypassing and kettling operations work right up to the point where the opposition feels a need to break out in order to re-establish their line, and only a fool would leave vital lines of communication and logistics in striking range of a bypassed strongpoint while their main effort keeps pushing inland. A few fools in a Lada with even light or improvised weapons can mess up truck convoys and have effects beyond all proportion to their size.
The Russians have to commit to reducing such points eventually, regardless of the perceived propaganda impact.
It’s an absolute travesty which throws under the bus any concept of honest and responsible government in favour of feels and fashion. It reverses the presumption of innocence. What’s more, it reinforces those concepts as viable ways to run a country.
marxist attack by a marxist government seeking the delegitimize property rights and national morale in general.
Why does the title ‘professor’ not impress me one iota anymore? As for PhDs what a joke (DPhil if you’re Oxford).
Pulling the legs of gullible “whitefellas” has long been considered fine sport by a certain element of the indigenous population. Cite you the “Frontier massacre” – the one for which Sir William Deane apologized – which “stories” described as being led by a man, who had been dead for two years at the time…
Sir William Deane of ‘unutterable shame’ infamy.
I believe ‘PhuD!’ is the sound an exploding ventricle makes, when the bill for completing one is presented to the unwitting scholar…
A run on Russian banks has begun. The rouble is down to around 83 from 120 odd. Russia has gold and it might work out something with China but say the finances there go into a deep dive and what with hacking the place descends into chaos. If Putin goes down he won’t just take a quiet exit. Prodding him, goading him is insane.
Markets look surprisingly calm considering the SWIFT booting & Putins nuke comments/actions.
Unless it’s taxpayer funded.
Hi Bob!
Bern
1. They’ve basically removed Russia materially from SWIFT. I don’t know how their banking system can survive and make payments outside of the Ruble. It could cause a run on their banking system on Monday.
2. Bill Ackerman is warning Russians to get their money out of Russian banks.. which is likely to be propaganda but it will frighten people all the same.
3. Musk has opened Starlink sat system to the Ukrainians.
4. Musk has also said Space X will provide the taxi-service to the space station as Russia has threatened to embargo their service.
5. NATO has said they will supply Ukraine with needed weapons.
The thing that really, really worries me is if Putin is completely nuts as some people have suggested and he tries the nuke angle. This is a dangerous time.
I’ll make this prediction. If the Ukraine shows it can hold out for the next week against Russian incursions, Putin will lose.
miltonfsays:
February 28, 2022 at 3:53 pm
Why does the title ‘professor’ not impress me one iota anymore?
There used to be a title of “Associate Professor”, which I think was a largely courtesy title for a senior lecturer.
Here’s my concern. Shoot it down if you think I’ve got it wrong.
Putin has placed his nuke assets on red alert. If things go bad and he orders a nuke attack on Ukraine or in Western Europe ( I’d wager it would be Berlin), would his generals over-ride his command? I fucking hope so.
Eyrie:
OK. You need nukes – anout 50Kt airburst at 1000 meters. . Just to be sure.
The Western MSM and their mindless sycophants have been quite disgusting. Rather than urging for a ceasefire and negotiation, its been gung-ho: lets arm the Ukrainians (useless and reckless without the requisite infrastructure and training) and mindlessly cajole civilians into a fight to the last man guerilla war with all the horror that entails, while they will safely continue their merry lives out of danger. I’m ignoring the danger of escalation that this also entails, but even without that, their conduct has been reckless and disgusting in the extreme: virtue signaling run amok.
Bah that won’t deter him.
The real deterrence will come when international celebrities do a mega video of (the idiots anthem) “Imagine” or “Give peace a chance” filmed from their mansions. (HT WiP)